Shiraki Chiyo

"Dreaming of a Magical Girl, a Snow-Ghost who loves anime. I'm Shiraki Chiyo."

Chiyo Shiraki is a member of AKB0048's 152nd Understudy generation. As Idol, she is known by the nickname Chi-chan (チーちゃん), Yo (よ) and Yoyo (よよ).

Apperance
Chiyo has white hair. Her eyes are silver-grey and she is quiet pale because she doesn't leaves her room often. Despite she doesn't do sport often, she isn't full. This is because she also eats not enough. Like all members, she has heart-lined shapes in her eyes and on her hair. Chiyo usually wears white, silver or grey clothes, despite loving colorful clothes. The reason for this style is that her hair just fits to those colors and magical girls also usually have fittable colot themes to their hair. Chiyo also commented several times that only white, silver and grey fits her, because in everything other, she looks creepy. However, she dislikes beeing outside without tons of suntan cream. Because of her apperance which is like a ghost, some fans call her Aurora.

Skills
Chiyo is a encyclopedia for Anime and Manga, esspacilly for magical girls. Though the fct that she tends to don't leave her room, she isn't sporty and has a weak body but a ver useful pitch as she has fun with dubbing Anime. In the past, she was skilled with skateboards and was able to play violin.

Personality
Towards strangers, Chiyo appears as emotionless and cold. However, this changes quickly. She is a smiling girl who often dreams. She loves anime and manga abouve everything, esspacilly magical girls. She want to be like them, a hero who saves everyone with a smile. This was also the reason why she wanted to join AKB.

Chiyo spends often time with watching anime which is the reason why she lacks on body sright. However, she can use her pitch very good as she has fun with dubbing anime. She also started to love video games with magical girl-like stories.

History
Since her chieldhood, Chiyo loved Anime and Manga. She always dreamed of beeing a hero like them. Someday, she started to don't leave her room anymore. She started to live in her own world. Of cause, she needed to go to school but instand of visiting school by herself, she gave her mother a video camera to film the lessons. This stayed like this since her first school year.

Auddition
As her parents wanted her to leave her room, they needed a reason. This reason was found in AKB0048. As Chiyo loved magical girl-like heros, she also started to like AKB as they are heros who fight for love and hope. Her father gave her the idea to auddition. Chiyo did it, despite she believed she wouldn't be accepted. She was. Not knowing about the next part of the auddition, she entered it.

Ethymology
Shiraki (白木) can be translated to white tree

Chiyo (千代) can be translated as 1 000 years.

Together, her name can mean 1 000 years old white Tree.

Quotes

 * "Dreaming of a Magical Girl, a Snow-Ghost who loves anime. I'm Shiraki Chiyo. " - Chiyo's Introduction Catchphrase

Achievements

 * -|Senbatsu Sousenkyo=
 * -|AKBingo!=
 * -|Janken Taikai=

Gallery
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Trivia

 * Her seiyuu was choosen because she voiced Fire Emblem: Awakening's Serena.
 * Her auddition song was To Say.
 * Her original planned name was Chori. This was changed because of various reasons. However, on her sign is still a butterfly.
 * She loves animals, esspacilly butterflies.
 * She writes a fanblog about AKB0048.
 * In her room is a promotiona poster for the AKB0048 Anime and several other Anime.
 * The only reason why she wants to succed Kojiharu is because of her magical girl-rod.
 * She plays the character Millenia in Majisuka Gakuen 00.
 * Her father is named after Satoru Iwata who died some days after her family was created.